---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 441.550"
title: "42"
number: "441.550"
heading: "Service plan requirements for self-directed model with service budget."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/441.550"
---

# §441.550. Service plan requirements for self-directed model with service budget.


The person-centered service plan under the self-directed model with service budget conveys authority to the individual to perform, at a minimum, the following tasks:

- (a) Recruit and hire or select attendant care providers to provide self-directed Community First Choice services and supports, including specifying attendant care provider qualifications.
- (b) **Dismiss specific attendant care providers of Community First Choice services and supports.**
- (c) **Supervise attendant care providers in the provision of Community First Choice services and supports.**
- (d) Manage attendant care providers in the provision of Community First Choice services and supports, which includes the following functions:
  - (1) **Determining attendant care provider duties.**
  - (2) **Scheduling attendant care providers.**
  - (3) **Training attendant care providers in assigned tasks.**
  - (4) **Evaluating attendant care providers' performance.**
- (e) Determining the amount paid for a service, support, or item, in accordance with State and Federal compensation requirements.
- (f) **Reviewing and approving provider payment requests.**

## Notes

### Source

Source: 77 FR 26898, May 7, 2012, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 45229, Sept. 29, 1978, unless otherwise noted.